This is for John Miller, our point man on daylight savings:

In three weeks, Minnesotans could be missing business appointments and airline connections, but they might be too happy to care.An early start to daylight saving time will add an hour of sunlight in the evening beginning March 11, thanks to a federal law passed two years ago to encourage energy saving. That’s three weeks earlier than the “spring ahead” switch we’ve followed for more than 20 years, and lasts one week later in the fall. The extra sunlight could help people shake the winter blues, but the prospect of confused Blackberrys and muddled airline schedules has already prompted comparisons to the technology scramble that preceded Y2K. Computer and software companies are telling their users that some electronic devices might be preprogrammed for the old time change….